Visual thinking: Data visualization

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Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you. Axiis provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations.

Axiis: Data Visualization Framework

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FlowingData | Data Visualization and Statistics

Whoa. What did I just read? I think most of you know of Freakonomics, but in case you don't, it started as a book in 2005, by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner. http://flowingdata.com/

Visualizing Meaning

http://martha.mannlib.cornell.edu/charts/?page_id=2 All 1,943 Cornell Faculty were asked to respond to the following question: Of the many charts (graph, map, diagram, table and ‘other’) you have seen in your life, which has been the most important, remarkable, meaningful or valuable?
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Visuwords - graphical dictionary and thesaurus

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. http://www.visuwords.com/
http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs024/onlineReading.html#science Huge! definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references "These doors took 27 years to complete (1425-1452), but the result was so outstanding (even Michelangelo said that they were "worthy of Paradise") Baudrillard, Jean, Simulations, Semiotext(e) 1983, "The Precession of Simulacra," pp. 1-80 "How crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?" How crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice? In the Spring of 1996 Physicist Alan Sokal published a hoax theory paper in a respected academic journal "Social Text.

Visual Thinking/Visual Computing- Resources

Data Visualization and Infographics - Smashing Magazine

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/14/monday-inspiration-data-visualization-and-infographics/ The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information clearly and effectivelty.

Free data visualisation tool

http://www.genesismc.co.uk/blog/free-data-visualisation-software/ In decision making, getting and analysing the right data is critical. However, often tables and even basic charts, do not go far to assist us in understanding the patterns and relationships. Excel has come a long way over the years, but still has its limitations when it comes to charting.